Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Back Street
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
A Face in the Crowd
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Top Hat
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
The Covered Wagon
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
Knight Without Armor
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Old Ironsides
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
The Prisoner
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
The Goat
A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
The Tunnel
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
The Egyptian
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Enter Three Dragons
Sammy is involved with gangsters to save his relative from a problem so he calls Dragon Hung from America to help him.
Number 17
A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detective is among them in disguise.
Big Man on Campus
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of UCLA. He discovers life as two students bring him out of the tower and into society.
The Seventh Victim
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Loving Annabelle
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
Iron Man
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a boxer, knowing that when he fights he's consumed with a murderous rage that makes him an "iron man." Seeing dollar signs in Rose's eyes, Coke reluctantly agrees, though he's fearful of the "killer instinct" that makes him a knockout success in the ring...and brings him the booing hatred of the fans. Will Coke throw off his personal demon before he kills someone?
So This Is Love
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
The Younger Generation
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
I Aim at the Stars
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.
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John Cromwell
Director
Ian Wolfe
as
Horace Greeley
Trevor Bardette
as
John Hanks
Louis Jean Heydt
as
Mentor Graham
George Chandler
as
Minor Role
Betty Blythe
as
Gossip
Virginia Pearson
as
Minor Role
William Bakewell
as
Richard Saxel - Walter's Son
Charles Nelson Reilly
as
Minor Role
Mary Boylan
as
One of Lonesome's Relatives
R.G. Armstrong
as
TV Prompter Operator
Mary Stewart
as
Dancer
Charlie Hall
as
Minor Role
Frank Albertson
as
Minor Role
Alan Hale
as
Sam Woodhull
J. Warren Kerrigan
as
Will Banion
Ernest Torrence
as
William Jackson
Austin Trevor
as
Colonel Adraxine
Guy Rolfe
as
Minor Role
Gary Cooper
as
Seaman
Peter Glenville
Director
Oscar Quitak
as
Cafe Waiter
Raymond Huntley
as
The General
Joe Keaton
as
Minor Role
Leslie Phillips
as
Minor Role
Michael Curtiz
Director
Michael Ansara
as
Hittite Commander
Leo Gordon
as
Minor Role
John Roy
as
Servant
Ron Nyman
as
Soldier
Mars
as
David Wu
as
(as Da-wei Hu)
Bolo Yeung
as
(Guest star) (as Yang Sze)
Jon T. Benn
as
Minor Role
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Barry Jones
as
Henry Doyle
Jeremy Kagan
Director
Bill Morey
as
Dean Crawford
Tom Skerritt
as
Dr. Webster
Don Sparks
as
Loading Dock Foreman
Neil Summers
as
Minor Role
Tom Conway
as
Dr. Louis Judd
Evelyn Brent
as
Natalie Cortez
Robert Roldan
as
Minor Role
Mel Harris
as
Minor Role
Joseph Pevney
Director
Henry Corden
as
Gambler
Elmo Lincoln
as
Minor Role
William Collier Jr.
as
Jerry McGuire
Jean Hersholt
as
Julius Goldfish - Pa
Clarence Burton
as
Police Desk Sergeant
Eduard Linkers
as
Minor Role
Hayden Rorke
as
U.S. Army Major
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